Store-bin.



. 110.738.572. PATENTEDs-EPT. a, 190s. D. E. EEID E D. E. HEIDELBERG.

STORE BIN. AEPLIOATION FILED 00T. 4, 1902.

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UNITED STATES*` atented September 190.l

"PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLIE'RFUS REID AND CECIL FELIX HEIDELBERG, OF HEIDELBERG,

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STORE-BIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,572, dated September 8, 1903.

Application iiled October 4, 1902.

To if/ZZ whom it 10i/wy concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES RUEUs REID andCEorL FELIX HEIDELBERG, citizens of the United States, residing at Heidelberg, in the county of Jasper and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Store-Bin, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to store-bins adapted for nails or other'commodities and the object in view is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eficient device of this class adapted for arrangement beneath the counter and accessible either at the front or rear thereof or for use independently of a counter, as at an intermediate point on the store-floor, and, furthermore, to provide a deviceof this class adapted particularly for containing articles which do not readily seek their level in the bin and of which the weightmust be equalized in returnze` ing the bin to its normal position in order that it may remain upright.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description and the novelfeatures thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without i departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of View of a bin constructed in accordance with j tional view of the same.

the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sec- Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures of the drawings.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the bin consists of a plurality of pivoted tilting receptacles 1, supported by a portable frame consisting of longitudinal parallel bars 2, secured together at their extremities by l transverse sills 3, which extend beyond the being flush with the lower edges of the side Serial No. 125,986. (No model.)

bars and adapted to rest on the supportingsurface, said uprights supporting the weight of the bins and their contents, and thus permitting the side and end bars to be made of very light material to render the device lighter and adapt it to be more easily moved. The receptacles are tapered toward their bottoms and have parallel side walls having bearing-openings, into which project pivot-pins 6, supported by the standards, said bearings being located midway between the obliquelydisposed end walls of the receptacles and above the mid-depth of the receptacles to support in stable equilibrium. The receptacles may be separately tilted in either direction-namely, forwardly or rearwardly-and the interval between the pivot-pins and the upper edges of the side bars of the frame is such as to perniiteach receptacle to be reversed in position with its top or open side downward, whereby accumulations of dust or other foreign matter therein may be readily emptied without altering the position of the frame. Moreover, as each receptacle is mounted for a free swinging movement the contents thereof, such as nails or other articles which do not readily find their level, may be distributed so that the receptacle may normally occupy a vertical position by shaking the receptacle as it is returned to its normal position after the discharge of a portion of itscontents for l the purpose-of sale or otherwise.

\ Having described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A store-bin having a frame consisting of,

a base and spaced nprights, downwardly-tapered receptacles arranged between` the uprights and having bearing-openings in the side walls thereof at points above their middepths, pins extending transversely through the uprights and projecting into the bearingopenings in said receptacles, the pin of an intermediate upright havingits terminals eX- tended laterally on either side of the upright and projecting into the bearing-openings in the side walls of adjacent receptacles, one pin operating as a trunnion for supporting one side of two receptacles.

2. A store-bin comprising a frame having parallel sidebars,terminaltransverse sills connectin g the side bars and extending beyond the IOO planes thereof to form feet, spaced uprights arranged between and in contact with the sidev bars and secured thereto, the lower ends of the nprights being flush with the lower edges of the side bars, pins carried by the nprights, and downwardly-tapered receptacles arranged between the uprights and having bearing-openings in the side walls thereof at points above above said side bars suiiicient to allow reversal of the receptacle.

l In testirn ony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures I5 in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLIE RUFUS REID. .CEOIL FELIX HEIDELBERG.

their mid-depths into which the pins carried Witnesses: by the uprights are adapted to extend, said S. Q. DONALD7 pivot-pins being disposed at an elevation J. G. ELLIS. 

